On the evening of May 15, 2021, 20-year-old Mariyah Miylena Nakhoune Inthirath of Bridgeport was fatally shot in New Haven’s Newhallville neighborhood. Police responded around 7:39 p.m. to reports of gunfire on Sheffield Avenue. A private vehicle brought Inthirath to Yale New Haven Hospital’s Chapel Street campus, where she was pronounced dead after sustaining a single gunshot wound. Her death was New Haven’s tenth homicide that year.

Family described Mariyah as energetic, outgoing, and someone who loved to live life; she was the only daughter and sister to three brothers and had hopes of becoming a model. Friends and community members gathered on Sheffield Avenue to light candles at a makeshift memorial, and a GoFundMe was set up to help with funeral costs. The New Haven Police Department is investigating; no arrests or suspects have been publicly identified.

Does anyone who was in the Newhallville area on the evening of May 15, 2021, have information that could help investigators?